Spanish Ministry of Development announced that it will implement a plan to improve rail services of RENFE Cercanias, the company operating short-distance routes linking 18 cities and their peripheries. The investment will amount to EUR 1.2 billion.
The investment program will take three years and aims to attract 22 million new passengers and to increase the frequency and punctuality of trains. Trains and stations will be modernised, level crossings will be suppressed and the payment systems will be implemented more efficient.Ppassenger information systems will also be improved. The funds will be alloted from the infrastructure manager ADIF, which will allocate EUR 1 billion, and from the railway passenger operator RENFE, which will contribute with EUR 257 million.
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